The online war between Nollywood actress Nkechi Blessing and controversial social media activist VeryDarkMan (VDM) has reached new lows, with VDM resurfacing an old advertisement where Blessing allegedly promoted dubious weight-loss products, branding her a “fraud” and intensifying his body-shaming campaign.
The fresh salvo comes hot on the heels of a viral scandal that erupted earlier this week when an unidentified gym-goer snapped and leaked unfiltered photos of Blessing sweating it out during a workout session. The images, which captured the 36-year-old actress in a candid, unflattering light, quickly spread like wildfire across Instagram and X, drawing cruel mockery from netizens and reigniting debates on body positivity and celebrity privacy. VDM, real name Martins Vincent Otse, wasted no time piling on, hailing the leak as “karma” and upping the ante by offering a N500,000 bounty to the photographer who “did the job.” “Nkechi, you’re not the victim—this is karma,” he crowed in a video rant, referencing past instances where Blessing had allegedly body-shamed others, including himself.
But VDM didn’t stop at rewards; he escalated the beef by unearthing a promotional clip from Blessing’s earlier career, where she enthusiastically endorsed a weight-loss supplement, claiming it transformed her figure. In the resurfaced ad, Blessing flashes before-and-after shots and gushes about shedding pounds effortlessly, a pitch VDM now mocks as deceptive. “This is the same Nkechi who was selling fake slimming teas and now she’s crying about body shaming? Fraud alert!” he captioned the video on his Instagram page, which has garnered over 500,000 views in under 24 hours. The clip, believed to date back to 2022, has fans divided—some applauding VDM’s “receipts” as proof of hypocrisy, while others decry it as a low blow in an already toxic feud.
Blessing, no stranger to VDM’s barbs, fired back with venom on her Instagram Stories, dismissing the activist as a “dirty rat” and warning him to “avoid me oooo!” She accused him and his self-proclaimed “RATEL Gang” of trying to drive her into depression, insisting, “At least na my belle dey trend, not my private part.” In a subtle nod to her health struggles—hinted at in a cryptic “prayer” post for the leaker—Blessing suggested the photos were taken amid personal challenges, not vanity. Her response also dragged VDM’s relevance into question: “Your father and 100 million of you put together no reach. Ogun wa gbe ooo!!!” The outburst, laced with Yoruba curses, has racked up millions of views and sparked solidarity from fellow celebs like Blessing CEO, who recounted her own history of being shamed by the actress but urged restraint.
This isn’t the duo’s first rodeo. Their animosity traces back to 2023, when VDM accused Blessing of leaking his nudes (a claim she denied), and she retaliated by threatening to drop compromising videos of him. The back-and-forth has since become a staple of Naija social media drama, with VDM positioning himself as a truth-teller against “fake” celebs, and Blessing framing him as a clout-chasing bully. Recent X posts show netizens split: “VDM is exposing frauds, but body-shaming is never okay,” one user tweeted, while another quipped, “Karma’s a gym bro now? This beef is wild.”
As the dust settles—or doesn’t—industry insiders whisper that Blessing’s camp is mulling legal action against the gym for privacy breaches, while VDM’s latest “apology” video twists the knife further by calling out her go-to “Aporoko Doctor” as another scam. Daddy Freeze has already weighed in, blasting the gym’s management for failing to protect patrons. With views in the tens of millions and counting, this saga underscores the perils of fame in the digital age: one leaked snap, one old ad, and suddenly, everyone’s a critic. Will Blessing drop those rumored tapes, or will VDM unearth more skeletons? In Naija’s endless scroll of scandals, the only winner so far is engagement. Stay locked in.